Student Paper Contest

Student contest winners:

Congratulations to our 2015 Student Contest winners:

First Place: Sagar Ray
for "A 10-Gb/s Inductorless AGC Amplifier with 45-dB Linear Variable Gain Control in 0.13-um CMOS" by Sagar Ray, Mona M. Hella, from Department of ECSE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Second Place: Nicholas Preyss
for "Fractionally Spaced Complex Sub-Nyquist Sampling for Multi-Gigabit 60GHz Wireless Communication" by Nicholas Preyss, Lorenz Koestler, Andreas Burg, from Telecommunications Circuits Laboratory, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland

Third Place: Bin Liu
for "Optimizing Power of Many-Core Systems by Exploiting Dynamic Voltage, Frequency and Core Scaling" by Bin Liu, Mohammad H. Foroozannejad, Soheil Ghiasi, Bevan M. Baas, from Department of ECE, University of California, Davis

The MWSCAS 2015 Student Contest chair thanks everyone who submitted a paper for the student contest, which has been a highlight of the Symposium since 1997. Choosing 8 finalists from the many strong papers submitted was a difficult task. We congratulate the finalists who are listed below and who will present their papers at two “student paper” special sessions on Monday, August 3rd. Contest winners will be selected by a panel of judges who will base their decisions on both the written papers and these presentations. The winners will be announced at the Symposium banquet Tuesday evening.

Contest finalists and presentation schedule:

Monday August 3, 2015 (10:20 - 11:40)

• Student Papers I (Room 324) [Chair: Yong-bing Kim, Northeastern University]
  • [1278] A 10-Gb/s Inductorless AGC Amplifier with 45-dB Linear Variable Gain Control in 0.13-um CMOS
    Authors: Sagar Ray, Mona M. Hella
    
  • [1718] A Delta-Sigma-Based Transmitter Utilizing FIR-Embedded Digital Power Amplifiers
    Authors: Heng Liu, Hanjun Jiang, Yiyu Shen, Woogeun Rhee, Zhihua Wang
    
  • [1889] Inductorless bandwidth extension using local positive feedback in inverter-based TIAs
    Authors: Weihao Ni, Marc-Alexandre Chan, Glenn Cowan
    
  • [1921] Optimizing Power of Many-Core Systems by Exploiting Dynamic Voltage, Frequency and Core Scaling
    Authors: Bin Liu, Mohammad H. Foroozannejad, Soheil Ghiasi, Bevan M. Baas
    

Monday August 3, 2015 (15:00 - 16:20)

• Student Papers II (Room 324) [Chair: Yong-bing Kim, Northeastern University]
  • [1447] A Perimeter Gated Single Photon Avalanche Diode Based Silicon Photomultiplier as Optical Detector
    Authors: Mohammad Habib Ullah Habib, Nicole McFarlane
    
  • [1492] Fractionally Spaced Complex Sub-Nyquist Sampling for Multi-Gigabit 60GHz Wireless Communication
    Authors: Nicholas Preyss, Lorenz Koestler, Andreas Burg
    
  • [1706] Exact and Approximated Discrete-Time Non-Linear Model of Voltage Switched CP-PLL
    Authors: Ehsan Ali, Wenceslas Rahajandraibe, Fayrouz Haddad, Ndiogou Tall, Christian Hangmann, Christian Hedayat
    
  • [1856] Exploiting State Obfuscation to Detect Hardware Trojans in NoC Network Interfaces
    Authors: Jonathan Frey, Qiaoyan Yu